Year: 2012

MatthewDratt stopped by to point out that CE3 LIVE, an event for showing off what the Halo: Custom Edition community has been doing recently, will be streamed live tomorrow at 4pm Eastern. He also linked to five promo pieces (very short): one | two | …

Halo Base’s Legend put together a gallery of shots of the Promethean Crawler, a new enemy we’ll be facing in Halo 4. Nice work! (Louis Wu 19:46:40 UTC)

The SuperWaffle let us know about a Halo 3 glitch called ‘Dumpster Diving’ – this uses the dumpster-driving technique that’s been known about for a few years to get completely out of the map, past a ver deep death barrier. Pretty cool!(Louis Wu 19:19:…

Back in 2009, a Halo Wars version of the board game Risk was released – now, you can buy a straight Halo version. Nice! Thanks, Hypertrooper.(Louis Wu 18:42:51 UTC)

The cover for Awakening: the Art of Halo 4, has been made public – check out IGN, for example, for a quick peek. Thanks, ChrisTheeCrappy.(Louis Wu 18:36:34 UTC)

Anoj has published a new episode of “Anoj Explains”, in which he holds forth on the Halo 4 console, Forward Unto Dawn, and tidbits from San Diego Comic-Con. Thanks, Jordan Bell.(Louis Wu 18:33:24 UTC)

DEEP NNN noticed a piece over at The Province detailing more great BTS footage of the Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn web series. More good insight into what’s coming soon. Check it out!(GrimBrother One 14:24:24 UTC)

Nak3d Eli stopped in with a link to a new sub-9-minute run through Tip of the Spear with all skulls (but Blind) on – he makes some really agressive choices, but they work out nicely for him. If you’re looking for a REALLY fast route… check this out!…

This model is epic. Thanks, TCKaos.(Louis Wu 19:31:41 UTC)

This model is epic. Thanks, TCKaos.(Louis Wu 19:31:41 UTC)

Wow, pretty cool. Over at NeoGAF, Computron pointed out a tour of a High-Poly Sub-D model of the Halo 4 Warthog – it requires WebGL, which works on a lot of browsers/platforms. Check it out!(Louis Wu 18:36:20 UTC)

The last semifinal round in the Rooster Teeth Achievement HORSE tournament is now online, both on the AH website and on YouTube. Gavin faces off against Burnie – it’s the battle of the snark! Thanks, Nikko B201.(Louis Wu 18:18:56 UTC)

t00lbox posted a nice little video showing a simple way out of Exodus – there’s lots to find!(Louis Wu 18:15:44 UTC)

CaneCutter posted a LOT of pictures taken at the recent HBO Indy LAN (hosted by Bones, discussed here) – I recognize SOME of the people, but not all. Hopefully there’ll be actual writeups at some point! Update: Apologies, links have been taken down (m…

Are you a long-time reader of HBO? Do you remember cool content from our past? Do you want a Halo 4 Warthog Prop code? If your answers to these three questions were ‘yes’, swing by this forum thread and win yourself something! Update: All 7 codes (plus…

MSNBC.com’s Todd Kenreck talked to Frank O’Connor at E3 last month – the footage aired a couple of days ago on the MSNBC website. Topic of conversation was Spartan Ops – swing by for a nice overview. Thanks to Munish23 (who noticed it on More Console)…

We got word from the crew at VIEW Conference 2012 (a large computer graphics conference taking place in Italy this coming October) that one of their headline speakers will be Josh Holmes, Creative Director for 343 Industries. If you were thinking abou…